It's a matter of curiosity of trying new things. I remember reading within the
linux-il lists that some people thought that Open Office didn't cover all their
needs like MS Office. This brought me to try to see why this is so.. Then I
found that altogether although MS Office showed the Right-to Left and Left to
Right Buttons with Crossover it doesn't behave correctly as Open Office. For
example I found that at the cursor it behaved as though it was typing in
English. For example, בא instead of אב eventhough the paragraph mark was
correctly placed. I do not know whether it is the Mandriva playing games with
the programme or Crossover, but if Open Office works correctly it must be that
Crossover has difficulty with Hebrew, or some Chametz got into the Keyboard.
On checking Properties for the Setup.exe for Davka I saw that it showed as root
is the owner. Probably this is correct. Installation does not complete in
Crossover or Wine. I have a feeling that this programme needs a version of .net
to be installed first. As I mention this is a matter of curiosity and not of
great importance as I find Open Office an excellent programme. I doubt that for
Linux there's anything to compare with it.
Regarding Tables I noticed that if you paste Hebrew from Word into Open Office
you get all the formatting details in the margin free area outside the cells; I
am not so sure why Open Office needs to behave this way, but it does. What I
had done in Word was paste into the right column some Hebrew text and English
in the left column of the table. Then copy out to of it to paste into Open
Office. I think the reason for this was being unable to paste directly into
Open Office without an inbetween programme. Some programmes do not let you
paste from certain sources..
Diversing a little: One of the things that they could have perfected in Open
Office which is left to an Add in is the picture cropping option. This is more
of a hit and miss regarding getting that right when cropping. But that is as I
have written above digressing from the subject.
Shabbat Shalom
Moshe
--- On Fri, 17/4/09, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail..com wrote:
From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover
To: Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Friday, 17 April, 2009, 5:05 PM
2009/4/17 Moshe Brace using Yahoo
mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk:
Anybody got this to work with Crossover or Wine? I am
looking for an alternative if one exits other than Open
Office for Hebrew Texting. Any suggestions?
Recently I tried Office 2003 and found that in Tables
Hebrew came up as Left to Right I presume this is the fault
of Crossover. Does Abbyword behave any better?
Moshe, off list.. I'd like to know what you find problematic
with OOo.
Better yet, start a thread on the list on the subject and
CC me, so
that other people can help as well. I find OOo to work just
fine for
Hebrew, I use it regularly.
--
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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